Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

No rush

Everything is going great!

Chicago Headline Club (et al.) just sued DHS for attacking journalists covering ICE protests. Similar to successful LA Press Club case. DHS arguments so bad they're getting laughed at IN COURT. Decorum matters in court, but this is fair. Make clown arguments, expect people to treat you as a clown.

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

No rush

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

bari weiss's cbs: "america"/"american," focus is "journalism" not the journalists themselves, doesn't dwell on standards, speed-focused, "uses all of the tools of the digital era" newly independent msnbc: focus on journalists themselves, ethics, freedom of speech/1st Amendment, "the world," AI-wary

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to. Graphic: @standplaatskrk.pl

NEW — So, there are multiple things happening today in Chicago. • Pritzker says Trump intends to send 300 troops here in the coming hours • Protestors are going off in Brighton Park, where federal agents shot a woman. thetriibe.com/2025/10/trum...

Tonight I am going in for a Fancy Dress and I am going as a squid.

Reuters gathered an expansive set of arrest records in D.C. since Trump's show of force began. The number of arrests -- a key measure of law enforcement activity, not necessarily of crime -- barely changed. www.reuters.com/world/us/did...

About 25% of US adults say they use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for news, and 33% of them say they generally find it difficult to tell what is true and what is not (Pew Research Center) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

As soon as I read the words “ass clown factory” I had to double check it was the real FBI director’s account and not some parody. It’s real.

One resident of the apartment building ICE raided told Reuters that agents broke down her door, then "told them to go back to their country and made a sexualized remark about Venezuelan women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

This year is beginning to seem endless.

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

The lawsuit boils down to two things: the “great level of deference” owed to the Executive Branch when federalizing the National Guard, and the obvious truth that the Executive Branch is, at the moment, completely out of its gourd and posting through it. www.theverge.com/policy/79204...

this is like half of r/ups now

Pope Leo letting folks know he's not going to be played..my latest for @msnbc.com

Sotomayor and Kagan also dissented, though they did not join KBJ's opinion. We can safely assume this was 6–3. The majority did not explain its reasoning, but suggested that the government faces a "harm" by maintaining TPS—one greater than the harm to 300,000 Venezuelans who may soon be expelled.

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Stephen Miller explicitly demanded this in his speech this week. bsky.app/profile/mske...

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

Just thinking of how $150 million could provide living wages and excellent health insurance to thousands of reporters. Like, forever.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

They’re literally socially constructing gender out of sand and metal after a decade of tut-tutting about women being adult human females ONLY

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Reviewing my WWII lecture & this hits different this year: The US Holocaust museum argues that “what distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison... is that it functions outside of the judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.” 🗃️

This is the advice I consistently give people about trying AI: use something you know very well already, so you can actually determine the quality of the output for yourself, and get some idea of how the sausage is being made

A few weeks ago, at a swanky Free Press event I attended in Manhattan, one subscriber who was there told me she was concerned that Bari Weiss was “selling out.” Then she said: “I thought the whole idea of The Free Press was independence from corporate media.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

[Sam Alito's wife reading this news] "I wonder if I have a flag for this"

Reading "In Cold Blood" it's wild how massively influential this book has been, in retrospect, given that Capote actually wrote this description: "their five­room apartment, with its gemutlich melange of plump hassocks and squashy chairs and cream­colored lace window curtains." Gemutlich melange!!

It’s fun to read this Politico story against the backdrop of that oath to only report approved news that the Pentagon tried to get reporters to sign. I think every quote is an anonymous snipe. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Vought would be doing the same thing with just as much gusto even if Congress had passed a budget because he thinks that there’s nothing that should be able to stop him from doing so under Trump’s authority

"What you fail to see Mr. Pope" is truly the most incredible assemblage of words I have seen coming out of X, the Everything App, in quite some time.

If I were still an editor I might be asking the copy desk, if I had one of those, to come up with usage guidelines for talking about AIs that didn’t imply they had agency or selfhood. The face generated for the AI actor-avatar is a character, like Mickey Mouse, not a person.

One important fact to remember when considering the power of memes and partisan messaging from components of the executive branch is that less than half of Americans can name all three branches of government. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

The book bans that have accumulated in the past four years are unprecedented and undeniable. Our new report looks back at the 2024-2025 school year — the 4th school year in the contemporary campaign to ban books — to highlight the continued attacks on books, stories, identities, and histories.

She's a civil servant whose job kept her too busy for a personal life until a government shutdown brought it to a screeching halt. He's a single dad whose small D.C. holiday shop is threatened by tariffs. This Christmas, they are ... Red, White & You.

See you at school Simon

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid. Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Whoa, White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...